Contest Radar

Jacob Cass from Just Creative Design is putting up a big contest on his site and is giving away over $5000 worth of prizes. There are numerous ways to enter the contest as well.
The main way to enter this contest is to write a post on graphic design and post it on your blog. This will get you 15 entries into the contest. There are ways to get in bonus entries as well and they are as follows

• Already Subscribed - If you are already a subscriber to Just Creative Design you will receive 3 free entry points. A free reward for you regular readers.
• New RSS Subscription - Subscribe to JCD by RSS and get 2 free entries.
• New Email Subscription - Subscribe to JCD by E-Mail and get 3 bonus entries.
• Link to Prize Sponsors - For every 4 sponsors you link to, you get 1 entry.
• Subscribe to blogs that have written an article - Gain 3 entries per blog. For this you will have to keep returning to this article to check out the new article submissions.
• Write a blog post about the competition - Gains you 4 entries. Provide The Link.
• Add sites to your blog roll - Add any of the author’s sites to your blog roll. 3 Entries per site added.
• Digg The Contest - Digg this article and receive 2 entries.
• Design Float The Contest - Design Float this contest and receive 2 entries.
• Save To Del.icio.us - Save to your del.icio.us favourites and receive 2 entries.
• Stumble and Review The Contest - Stumble this contest with a short review and receive 4 entries.

After doing any or all of this, simply leave a comment on the contest post letting Jacob know what you’ve done or send him an email

All entrants via the main entry will get a link back as well. The winner will be chosen at random from the entries. The contest ends on March 4th.

Here are the sponsors of this contest

1st Prize Package - The Guitar Package

An Electric Guitar and all accessories - Rafie from mohdrafie.co.uk is our main prize sponsor, generously donating his electric guitar and accessories. Why? Because he wants to focus on his design skills and he wants it to be passed onto another designer.

2nd Prize - The Stock Package

• Go Media Vector Packs - Ultimate Vector Collection 1 - 597 Vectors royalty free. (Worth $523) This was donated by myself for the project and comes direct from Go Media. You can view what’s in the packs here: Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5
• Adobe Photoshop Brush Pack - A collection 80 quality royalty free photoshop brushes.
• 55 iStock Photo Credits from PJ, who owns a Premium Wordpress Theme showcase which shows attractive customisations of WordPress Premium Themes.

3rd Prize - The ReDesign & Advertising Package #1

• Design Consultation with David Airey. David Airey is a well known blogging graphic and logo designer from Scotland and he is offering feedback on a corporate identity and how this is implemented on a respective website. David has recently opened a logo resource blog called Logo Design Love focused purely on logos so he knows his stuff!
• Logo design OR blog header design. Hopefully after the design consultation with David, I can improve your blog or logo. If you are unaware of my designs, you can check out my portfolio)
• One 131×63 advertising space on Estetica Design Forums which gets 25,000 visitors a month. A kind donation by Toon who runs the forums and who is a regular contributer with over 14,000 posts.
• 2 Months Free Advertising - Seven 16×16 pixel squares on Just Creative Design. Will go to only 1 person. Check out my advertising page for more details.

4th Prize - ReDesign & Advertising Package #2

• Logo Design by Vivien from InspirationBit who freelances as a Web & Graphic Designer based from Canada. A very kind donation, thank you.
• Web site or blog critique - also donated by Vivien. The winner can choose between Vivien’s review by email or on her blog Inspiration Bit, with a link back to the winner’s site.
• 1 hour consultation on Wordpress’s Theme Customisation over Skype, or AIM, or MSN. This prize was also kindly donated by Vivien.
• One 131×63 advertising banner on Estetica Design Forums which gets 25,000 visitors a month

Bonus Prizes

Each singular prize will go to a unique person. ie. Blog review to one person, header design to another person.

• One hour blog optimization consultation with Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. This consultation will cover design, SEO, monetization and blogging strategy, coming from the author of one of the most respected and useful resources in the blogosphere. Sure wish I was getting this!
• A Blog Header design by Audee from from Graphic Identity. A kind donation, from Audee who writes tutorials and reviews mostly around Adobe Photoshop & Ilustrator on her blog.
• A Blog Review from Bloggeries - A review from Bloggeries is a great opportunity to expose and advertise your blog to a wider audience. Bloggeries is PR5 and receives heavy traffic everyday so a blog review can help improve your traffic and feed subscribers. Rob, the blogger over at Bloggeries, will give you some useful tips and constructive criticisms to help you improve your blog as well.
• Two Months Free Advertising - One 16×16 pixel square on Just Creative Design. See our advertising page for more details. A small and sweet prize.
• Sandisk USB Multi Memory Card Reader for Mobiles - You have heard of multi memory card readers that read all types of memory cards, well this one is especially built for mobile phones or pdas. This memory card reader can read MicroSD Cards, All three types of MicroSD HC cards, all types of M2 Cards and SIM cards. A pretty nifty tool for anyone who has a lot of media on their mobile or pda. This prize was donated by myself, with free world wide postage.
• Save 39% off any magazine subscription from www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk - For a Christmas present this year I received a 12 month subscription to the Computer Arts magazine (I love it) and with it I received a ‘39% off any new magazine subscription’ voucher and I am giving this as a prize… Save 39% off your next magazine subscription.
• Ultimate WebMaster Pack - Building A Blog Empire eBook, Ultimate Super Tips eBook, Internet Marketing eBook, 114 Flash Banners, 100 Website Templates, 78 PHP and Perl CGI Scripts plus lots of other small goodies. This has been kindly donated by JasMate from Digital Point Forums.
• 260×120px banner for 1 month on Freelance Folder. Freelance Folder is a great resource for freelancing graphic designers. Freelance Folder has over 2000+ Subscribers so you are guaranteed a lot of visitors. A kind donation by Jon, owner of Freelance Folder.
• 160×240 advertising spot on the MintyFerret for the months of March+April (two months). The Minty Ferret (a design blog) has gotten about 20,000 visits in the last month, making up 35,000 page views. Thanks Jillian.
• One Year Flickr Pro account - A kind donation by Lauren from Creative Curio. Creative Curio is a blog focused around graphic design and has very resourceful articles ranging from tutorials to general discussions. Thanks again Lauren and hope your well
• Indepth Blog Critque and Review- Ruchir from Technomoney, which offers blogging tips is offering this blog critique for this prize draw. Thanks!
• Three gold subscriptions good for one year at GetAbstract.com - worth $299 each. GetAbstract contains over 4000 abstracts to business books. Thanks to Meryl for this kind donation.
• 30 minute Skype type chat discussion on industrial design or product design consultation for graphic designers interested in designing/making/selling their own products) from Design Sojourn.